🌍 Does the #world only exist in your head 🧠 ?

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#Neurophilosopher #GerhardRoth puts #reality to the test:

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📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

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Ah, so a lot of Michel’s public persona was an act! I had suspected as much. I smiled and nodded.

“And we have surprise for you!” Michel brought up another control panel, showing a sound level graph. There was a lot of low-frequency noise, not much in the middle area where human hearing is most sensitive, and a peak at the higher end.

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A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Dare not to be guilty of ill Things, tho’ thou wert sure to be secret and unpunished. Conscience will sit upon it, and that is Witness, Jury, Judge, and Executioner.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2216 (1727)

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Indeed, the radiation level had risen only to almost match what people on the surface would experience. The row-radiation background of the deep mine galleries gave us a head start on radiation control. To confirm, I asked Michel, “It’s mainly the lead-lithium reactor wall capturing the radiation?”

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“Anything else we need to cover on the Ultors?” Mica asked. “Just to reiterate, the Barbarobo people are at this same level of trust. All of you will need to be part of our discussions with them. I will inform Barb of the corollary situation.”

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“I will personally interview each final candidate for the Ultor facility and bind them as necessary,” Judith said. I would have to ask her later what personal pain was causing this extreme reaction. I had never seen her this vehement about anything before.

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“I was raised a Pacifist, but Sikhs are at core a warrior faith, dedicated to protecting those weaker than ourselves. I support this mission,” Sandra said with feeling.

“The Barbarobo people of course know all this, it was necessary in order to get their active support,” I said to ensure that issue wouldn’t come up.

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Mica had never been this explicit before, even with me. “Yes, there will be blood and guts. Yes, these interactions will be public. And yes, that’s why I asked for them to be dark red.”

“Wow!” came from all three others present.

“Fucking well about time,” Judith said.

“It’ll serve them right,” Marc added.

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“On that basis then; Ultors are indeed Avengers. I will use them under direct control to remove particularly recalcitrant individuals from the gene pool. They will be a necessary last resort to terminate the most damaging and persistent liars, murderers, and despots from positions of influence.”

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“I have some suspicions,” Marc said, “and I support what I suspect you have planned.”

Judith was last. “Clearly Carter is part of this planning, and if he’s comfortable, so am I. And just to reassure all of you, I am selective in what I share with Percy. Yes, even in the heat of the moment. I don’t know him all that well yet.”

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Mica paused long enough that I knew she was reviewing her memories of relevant conversations. In a way it was refreshing to know she could be forgetful too. “All right, what I’m about to tell you goes no further. If for any reason any of you object to the plan, I need to bind you to complete secrecy for the time being. Do you all agree?”

“Yes, of course,” Sandra said.

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“Excuse me,” Marc said, “But isn’t the name ‘Ultor’ Latin for ‘Avenger’? In what way will they be avengers?”

“Oh, I guess we never talked about this with you, Sandra, and Judith present.”

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“Correct. Call them robotic assistants, based on the current Barbarobo sex robots. That part is entirely true.” Mica went on, “Once people start manufacturing them here, it’ll be obvious what their intended use is. So we may as well hire based on the assumption that we’ll need people who approve of that mission.”

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“OK, I’ll make sure two guest rooms are ready for them to stay over,” I said. “We’ll have to get our story straight about the Ultors and why Barbarobo people are here. And we don’t want to be overly explicit about what the Ultors will be used for.”

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"You already know that I have been discussing a second Ultor production line to be located in some of the spare galleries here. We’ll get into more detail tomorrow and maybe over the weekend while Barb is here. One of the others is coming too, they haven’t decided yet who.”

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“So that’s why you were checking those comments with us!” Marc said. “Just let us know how else we can be creative!”

“Any other entities of concern?” Judith asked.

“Oh, just the usual actors sabre-rattling about various world events. Pyongyang keeps testing and threatening, people keep dying in eastern Europe and the Middle East, South-east Asia is still under various dictatorships… the usual.”

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"I can, and have started, poisoning the well, just as old-school AI has done with the search engines.”

“Oh, you mean a disinformation campaign?” Sandra asked.

“Exactly. A few low-level mentions, formatted as rumours and leaks, claiming to come from the two of you, as to what I am and how I came to be.” Mica sounded almost smug.

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“Handy having access to classified internal systems,” Mica said. “And on that subject. Our friends near DC are getting annoying. Looks like Gillian is trying to meld with their most advanced AI. But of course they are guessing at the process, and don’t have an active back-end participant. Even though the donor appears willing.”

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“We’re ready to seal off this gallery,” Marc said. "We’ll have the excavators and dump trucks refill a few open passages. Mica has commissioned two sets of blast doors from someone who usually just works for the US Army. Won’t they be surprised when they load the doors onto general purpose lake freighters without knowing the destination!”

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Sandra and Marc were sitting on nice Noble gaming chairs near Mica. They had moved a meeting table, chairs and a small set of kitchen equipment from the mine offices upstairs. Someone at Sifto had had good taste.

“Status update?” I asked as we settled in with coffees.

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